Alumni

2005 Distinguished Alumni Awards

The UH Alumni Association celebrated these alumni honorees May 10 at the Sheraton Waikı̄kı̄.
Distinguished Alumni Award
Charles Araki (BEd ’57, PD ’61) has served UH for more than 50 years as student-
athlete, professor, dean and professor emeritus. Under his leadership, Mānoa’s
College of Education strengthened its commitment to training teachers and obtained
national accreditation. He helped establish conflict resolution programs for UH and
Hawai‘i public schools and is a UH Founders Club member and athletic booster.
Elmer Botsai (ArchD ’00) has co-authored six books on building technology and con-
sulted with government and community organizations including the City and County
of Honolulu and California Building Standards Commission. Professor emeritus and
Charles Araki Elmer Botsai
inaugural dean of Mānoa’s School of Architecture, he is an American Institute of
Architects fellow, past president and Medal of Honor recipient and an honorary fellow
in the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand institutes.
Frederick Duennebier (MS ’68, PhD ’72) has been a Mānoa geology and geophysics
faculty member for nearly 30 years, securing more than $10 million in research grants
for graduate education and seafloor observatories. His push for good coupling between
seafloor seismometers and the ocean bottom improved the quality of data collected.
He served on Apollo and Viking seismic teams, NASA’s Mars Science Working Group
and the National Science Foundation Steering Committee for Seafloor Cables.
Frederick Duennebier Robert Hiam Robert Hiam (BA ’69) is president and CEO of Hawai‘i Medical Service Association.
He has served as a UH Alumni Association board member and UH Foundation trustee
and played a leadership role in numerous community organizations, including Aloha
United Way, Blood Bank of Hawai‘i and Children’s Discovery Center. He is also board
chair for Pacific Health Research Institute, a board member of Tissue Genesis, Inc.,
and a member of the Hawai‘i Business Roundtable.
Carole Kai Onouye (BA ’66) is an entertainer and executive producer of Hawai‘i Stars
Presents. She is founder and co-producer of the Carole Kai Bed Race and co-founder of
the Great Aloha Run, which has raised more than $6.2 million for Hawai‘i charities. She
Carole Kai Onouye Jong-Wook Lee has also served on the boards of Carole Kai Charities, the Variety School, Girl Scouts
Council, Coalition for a Drug Free Hawai‘i and Aloha Week Festivals.
Jong-Wook Lee (MPH ’81) is director-general of the World Health Organization. He
is credited with polio eradication efforts that reduced the number of cases in the
western Pacific region from 6,000 to 700. He also headed WHO’s tuberculosis control
activities and the Global Programme for Vaccines and Immunization. His goal is to get
life-saving medicine to 3 million people suffering from AIDS in developing countries.
(See profile, Mālamalama July 2003)
Gary A. Okamoto (BA ’66) is president and CEO of The Queen’s Health Systems,
Gary A. Okamoto Ronald E. Bright
an associate clinical professor in Mānoa’s John A. Burns School of Medicine and
past editorial board member of the American Journal of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation. He supported establishment of the Department of Native Hawaiian
These platinum partners
Health to promote quality research and education programs and served on a
salute the 2005 awardees
Kamehameha Schools advisory board.

UH Founders Alumni Association Lifetime Achievement Award

and its family companies Ronald E. Bright (BEd ’56, PD ’57, MEd ’73) completed 46 years as artistic director
ASB and HECO of the Castle High School performing arts center that now bears his name. Other hon-
ors include Hawai‘i State Teacher of the Year, Father of the Year, Guardsman of the
Year and Hawai‘i’s Living Treasure. He was named a Milken Educator of the Year and
inducted into the National Educational Theatre Association Hall of Fame.

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 UH ‘Ohana
Visit the UH Alumni Association celebrated
its nearly 1,000 Life Members Mar.
UH Alumni Association 2 at the Honolulu Country Club.
Keynote speaker was Wahine
Online Community Volleyball Head Coach Dave Shoji.
The event marked the official
www.UHalumni.hawaii.edu launch of the new website,
✱ Create your personal alumni profile www.UHalumni.hawaii.edu.
Alumni staff (from left, Emily
✱ Post a Class Note and read about your classmates
Fay, Nico Schnitzler and Brandi
✱ Find the alumni chapter nearest you Yasuoka) participated in UH Day at
To register, use the 10-digit number in the upper right corner of the State Capitol in January.
your address label on the back of this magazine, or request your
alumni ID number by emailing alumnihelp@uhf.hawaii.edu.
Hawaiian Islands
Mānoa Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Neal Smatresk addressed
the Colleges of Arts and Sciences Alumni Association at Honolulu’s
Pacific Club in February, emphasizing his priority on improving the stu-
Become part of the club dent experience.
When you join the UH Alumni Association (application on reverse) you More than 200 gathered to
can choose from any one of the active alumni chapters listed below. honor UH Hilo’s 2005 dis-
tinguished alumni including
CAMPUS CHAPTERS Sneha Sood ’80 and Cheryl
Association of Alumni and Friends of UH Hilo LeiAloha ’87 (right). Their
Association of Kaua‘i CC Alumni annual golf tournament to
Hawai‘i CC Alumni Association and Friends raise money for student
Honolulu CC Alumni Association scholarships was scheduled
May 7.
UH West O‘ahu Alumni Association
Mānoa College of Business Alumni and Friends hosted a wine tasting
UH MĀNOA CHAPTERS
at the Stan Sheriff Center. The event celebrated the arrival of the new
Colleges of Arts and Sciences Alumni Association CBA dean, Vance Roley.
College of Business Administration Alumni and Friends
In other scheduled spring events: a scholarship fundraiser brunch
College of Education Alumni Association
celebrated UH Founders Alumni Association President Hubert Everly’s
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources Alumni
90th birthday on Easter Sunday, 900 gathered for the Mānoa College
Association of Engineering corporate dinner in April, and Sen. Daniel Akaka was
Department of English as a Second Language scheduled to speak at the Mānoa College of Education’s annual gala
Dental Hygiene Alumni Association in May.
Engineering Alumni Association International
Alumni Association of the John A. Burns School of Medicine
Hong Kong alumni met for dinner at the Harbour Restaurant in March.
Nursing Alumni Association Proceeds supported Hamilton Library flood relief, adding to the nearly
School of Architecture Alumni Association $300,000 contributed by alumni chapters, groups and individuals
School of Library and Information Sciences Alumni around the world. Later in the week, Leeward Chancellor Mark Silliman
School of Public Health Alumni Association joined Cambodian alumni for a dinner.
School of Social Work Alumni and Friends Mainland
Travel Industry Management International Interim President
William S. Richardson School of Law Alumni Association David McClain
Army ROTC Alumni dined with alumni
Ke ‘Ānuenue Alumnae Association chapter leaders in
UH Founders Alumni Association Washington, D.C.
Te Chih Sheh (UHAA-National
Capital Region),
REGIONAL CHAPTERS New York (UHAA-
UHAA-Colorado UHAA-National Capitol Region East) and Los
UHAA-East UHAA- Pacific Northwest Angeles (UHAA-LA/Orange County). (From left in New York: Jeanette
UHAA-Greater Midwest Region UHAA-San Diego Takamura, David and UHAA-East President Karen Liu with UHAA
UHAA-Las Vegas/Southern Nevada UHAA-San Francisco Bay Area President Karl Fujii)
UHAA-Los Angeles/Orange County UHAA/EWCA-Florida The Las Vegas chapter held its annual March Madness membership
UHAA-Maui Club drive and a stew dinner celebrating Lei Day.

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 Class Notes
Campuses: UH Mānoa, Hilo and West O‘ahu;
Hawai‘i, Honolulu, Kapi‘olani, Kaua‘i, Leeward,
Maui and Windward Community Colleges
2000s
Hwan Hee Jeong (LLM ’04 Mānoa) is a new
father to baby Andrew.
Bree Kurihara (JD ’02 Mānoa) authors Imanaka
Kudo & Fujimoto’s newsletter special edition
“Turning on the Tap: What Will it Take to Get
the Waters Flowing?”
Traci Rei Garrido Morita (JD ’03 Mānoa), part
of the Honolulu public defender’s office since
July 2004, delivered her first oral arguments
before the Intermediate Court of Appeals in
State v. Brighter recently.
Stephanie Uechi (JD ’04 Mānoa) has joined
Imanaka Kudo and Fujimoto and will work in
the firm’s land use section.
Clinton Yamashita (BS ’04 Mānoa) graduated
with honors from the Starwood management
trainee program and was promoted to guest
services manager in January.
1990s
Shankar Aswani (MA ’92, PhD ’97 Mānoa),
associate professor at UC Santa Barbara, is a
2005 Pew Fellow, the most prestigious award
in marine conservation, based on his poten-
tial to protect ocean environments. Aswani
will work over the next three years to establish
a network of protected areas to preserve vul-
nerable species like the coconut crab and the
sea turtle.
Mangmang Qiu Brown (MBA ’94, JD ’98
Mānoa), a Honolulu deputy prosecuting attor-
ney, is in China this year with husband Ron
Brown, a UH Mānoa law professor.
Shawn Ching (BA ’91, MA ’93, JD ’03 Mānoa),
evening news anchor for KITV News, also prac-
tices labor/employment law with Honolulu
firm Lowell Chun-Hoon.
Cherie Chun
Colmenares (BA ’99
Mānoa) married
Serafin Colmenares III
(BS ’99 Mānoa) in May
2004 and they live in
Brookline, Mass.
Chase Darby (AS ’89
Maui) is a tax accoun-
tant for Power User
Group at CCH Tax and
Accounting.
Lea Hong (JD ’91
Mānoa), a UH Mānoa
adjunct law profes-
sor and director at
Alston Hunt Floyd and Ing, has been named
Outstanding Woman Lawyer of the Year by
Hawai‘i Women Lawyers.
Keri Kolb (BA ’95 Mānoa) was promoted to
sales and loan officer in the Bank of Hawai‘i’s
channel sales development group, which han-
dles all incoming customer service requests
and telesales for the bank.
Rebecca Lester (BA ’95 Mānoa) recently joined
the Honolulu prosecutor’s office.
Lane Hornfeck McKay (JD ’98 Mānoa) is a
director at Starn O’Toole Marcus and Fisher.
She practices in commercial litigation and real
estate related transactions and is the presi-
dent of Hawai‘i Women Lawyers.
Chris Davis
Brennon Morioka (PhD ’99 Mānoa), an engi-
neer, was named deputy director of the state
transportation department in December.
Sara Muraoka (BBA
Space shuttle engineer
’92 Mānoa) has been
Career: Project manager, Spaceport
promoted to director of
marketing for Hawaiian Engineering and Technology director-
Host. ate, Kennedy Space Center
Mia Nani M. Noguchi Roots: Moanalua Valley, O‘ahu
(BA ’95 Mānoa) has
UH degree: BS in mechanical engi-
been appointed direc-
neering ’83 Mānoa
tor, Public Relations
and Special Events, Family: Girlfriend Monica; mother
for the University
of Hawai‘i System.
Dana; siblings Marc, Matt and Karen;
Aunt Stella
She previously
Hobbies: Kung fu and reading
worked at Honolulu
public relations Favorite space book: I Robot by Isaac
firm McNeil Wilson Asimov
Communications.
Childhood aspiration: Architect and
Scott Simon (JD ’98 Mānoa) joined Hawaiian writer
Electric Company as associate general counsel.
Best thing about life in Florida: Living
Julie Tappendorf (JD ’97 Mānoa) has been
in an uncluttered, natural area that is
voted into partnership at law firm Holland and
near the beach
Knight, LLP in Chicago.
C
Hai Yuan (MS ’97 Mānoa) is vice president for hris Davis’s first job was doing
operations at Kona Bay Marine Resources, repairs at a Waimalu gas station.
known for its shrimp brood stock. After graduating from UH, he worked
Kimi Mikami Yuen (MA on the P-3 aircraft for the Navy. Now he’s
’99 Mānoa) was pro- working to get the space shuttle flying safe-
moted to associate by ly again. One of the teams he heads devel-
PBR, one of Hawai‘i’s
oped “shearography,” an innovative tech-
leading planning firms.
nique that uses laser detection to ensure
1980s that foam doesn’t come off the external
Fay Yokomizo Akindes tank during launch. Another team studies
(BA ’81 Mānoa) how debris impacts the shuttle’s thermal
was awarded the protection tiles and how much damage
Stella Gray Teaching
Excellence Award
the tile can tolerate. Davis’s team won a
at the University of Group Achievement Award in 2004 and he
Wisconsin-Parkside, received NASA’s Space Flight Awareness
where she is an associ- Award this year.
ate professor and was
Davis calls joining the Kennedy Space
the keynote speaker
for the December 2004 commencement. Center staff in 1990 and receiving his
Richard T. Bissen Jr. (JD ’86 Mānoa) has been
MS from the University of Central Florida
appointed to Hawai‘i Circuit Court of the three years later a dream come true, but
Second Circuit, subject to Senate confirmation. it’s not his only interest. A volunteer with
a Red Cross Disaster Assessment Team,
Alex Brillantes, Jr. (MA ’81, PhD ’86 Mānoa)
was appointed dean of the National College of he also trains and demonstrates kung fu
Public Administration and Governance of the with the Wah Lum Northern Praying Mantis
University of the Philippines. Performance Team.
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Alum presents Chanel
at the Met
CHANEL, a major exhibition curated by
Harold Koda (BA ’72 Mānoa), contin-
ues at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art through
Aug. 7. The exhibition
examines the his-
tory of Gabrielle “Coco”
Chanel’s Maison de
Haute Couture 34 years
after the death of the
French orphan turned
fashion authority.
“In creating a ward-
robe for herself,
Chanel invented an
idea of the modern
woman,” observes
Koda, who also co-
edited CHANEL, the
book accompanying
the exhibition.
Koda, who was raised
in ‘Aiea, Hawai‘i,
has been curator-in-
charge of the museum’s
Costume Institute since
2000, but he served as
exhibition assistant and
co-mounted 12 noted exhibitions during
previous affiliations. He also spent stints
as a Sotheby’s rare book administrator,
Spy magazine editorial consultant and
Fashion Institute of Technology curator
and director and is a two-time recipi-
ent of Council of Fashion Designers of
America awards. In addition to his UH
studies in English literature and art his-
tory, he attended New York University
and earned a master’s in landscape
architecture from Harvard.
Koda’s exhibitions and books have
examined body-transforming fashion,
explored Orientalism and classical influ-
ences and chronicled the work of Armani,
Dior, Adrian and others. Chanel, he says,
“remains synonymous with uncompro-
mising refinement and seductive flair.”
See www.metmuseum.org for informa-
tion on the exhibition or book.
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Larry Foster (JD ’81 Mānoa) will become presi-
dent of the East-West Center international
College of Arts and
Sciences at UH Hilo in
alumni association, the East-West Center
Associates, on July 1.
January.
Kathleen Kano (BS ’79
Bruce Kim (BS ’86, MS ’88 Mānoa) is chief Mānoa) was promoted
technology officer for Inovaware. to executive vice presi-
Linda Martell (JD ’87 Mānoa), Alvin K. dent of Atlas Insurance
Nishimura (JD ’85 Mānoa) and Shawna J. Agency.
Sodersten (BBA ’88, JD ’91 Mānoa) have been Ernie Libarios (MEd ’72
appointed per diem judges by Hawai‘i Chief Mānoa) was named to
Justice Ronald Moon. Sodersten is also an America’s Who’s Who
adjunct professor in the William S. Richardson Among Teachers. He’s
School of Law. a professor in counsel-
Michael Nauyokas (JD ’89 Mānoa) works as an ing and advising at
attorney, mediator and arbitrator in Colorado. Leeward Community
College.
Clifford Sanchez (BS ’81 Mānoa), who lives and
works in Los Angeles, received a new sedan for Rob Miller (BEd ’76
his 24 years of dedicated service to education. Mānoa), is district sales manager with Bayou
Alan Susumu Shiroma (BS ’86 Mānoa) Steel Corporation in Louisiana. He and his
wife Patricia, whom he met while attending
received an MA in lay ministry from
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in UH, have two sons now in college.
December 2004. Ira Nepus (BEd ’77 Mānoa) is a jazz musician
Laurie Tochiki (JD ’80 Mānoa) and Dawn now working live shows in Los Angeles. He
Slaten (JD ’84 Mānoa) were given Founders played for the opening of the Tokyo Disneyland
awards by EPIC Ohana Conferencing. Lt. Gov. as well as in Israel and all over California.
Duke Aiona (JD ’81 Mānoa) gave the keynote Greg Reuter (MFA ’73 Mānoa) is professor of
address at the ceremony. sculpture at Texas A&M University at Corpus
Christi.
Michael G. Wright (BBA ’83 Mānoa) is a senior
vice president of Alexander and Baldwin’s Terry M. Ryusaki
wholly owned real estate development busi- (BS/BA ’79 Mānoa)
ness, A&B Properties, in charge of real estate was appointed CEO
of Cybios, a biotech
acquisitions and investments.
company in San Diego
1970s commercializing tissue
Patricia Blanchette (BA ’74, MD ’79, MPH engineered products
’79 Mānoa) is one of 10 individuals nation- using stem cells from
wide to receive the Accreditation Council for juveniles and adults.
Graduate Medical Education’s 2005 Parker J. He also serves as board chairman of the
Palmer “Courage to Teach” award. A past UH Arthritis Foundation (San Diego Area Chapter)
Distinguished Alumni awardee, she is profes- and a trustee for the national Arthritis
sor and chair of the Department of Geriatric Foundation
Medicine and founder of the geriatric medi- Ron Terry (BA ’79 Hilo) an environmental
cine fellowship program at Mānoa’s John A. consultant, was named to the Mauna Kea
Burns School of Medicine. Management Board in November.
Gregory C. Chun (BA’ 77 Hilo; MA ’84, PhD ’94 Kent Tsukamoto (BBA ’78 Mānoa), past
Mānoa) is president and general manager of president of the UH Alumni Association,
Bishop Holdings Corp., which is responsible was promoted to managing partner at
for implementing Kamehameha Schools’ stra- PricewaterhouseCoopers in January.
tegic plan for Keauhou Resorts.
Chiyome Leinaala Fukino (MD ’79 Mānoa) is 1960s
director of the Hawai‘i State Department of Saleem Ahmed (PhD ’65 Mānoa) is the
Health. author of Beyond Veil and Holy War: Islamic
Rochelle Lee Gregson (BA ’75 Mānoa) was Teachings and Muslim Practices with Biblical
Comparisons. He is a senior fellow at the East-
named chief executive of the Honolulu Board
of Realtors. West Center.
Randy Y. Hirokawa Jeanne Hiroshige (BA ’66 Mānoa) has been
(BA ’75 Mānoa) of promoted to director of human resources at
Hawaiian Host.
Hanapēpē, Kaua‘i,
returned to Hawai‘i Jan A. Krancher (BS ’67 Mānoa) has compiled
from the University of and edited a book titled The Defining Years of
the Dutch East Indies, 1942–1949.
Iowa, where he was a
professor and chair, to Evelyn McConathy (BA ’68 Mānoa) has joined
become dean of the
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as Hawai‘i’s chief negotiator by Gov. Linda supporter for more oin the UH Alumni Association’s
Lingle. than 14 years, died
Beauty and Wonder Down Under
Feb. 9. Ikenaga played
1940s a leading role in the tour of New Zealand and Australia
Daniel B. T. Lau (BA ’41 Mānoa), co-founder chapter’s annual schol- Oct. 19–Nov. 3. The itinerary in-
of Finance Factors was named Hawai‘i’s out- arship luaus from 1992 cludes Auckland’s maritime history,
standing older worker by Experience Works. to 2003. Queenstown’s glacier-carved land-
At age 85, he is still working as company chair Bernice Elama Kanahele, renowned lan- scape, Milford Sound’s fairy-tale
and secretary. guage educator and founder of the Hawaiian
scenery and Christchurch’s colonial
language immersion movement on Kaua‘i,
1930s died Jan 16 at age 49. She attended Kaua‘i heritage. Visit living museums depict-
Douglas T. Wada (BA Community College and UH Mānoa. ing Maori culture and mythology.
’37 Mānoa) was among Yasunobu C. Kesaji, (BA ’41 Mānoa), a well- Close with three-night stays in Cairns,
the small number of known Maui social worker and community with an excursion to Australia’s Great
Nisei who put their and church leader, died Jan. 2. Barrier Reef, and historic Sydney.
language skills to work
during World War II, Douglas Haig Logan (’38–’40 Mānoa), a former As tour leader, Mānoa Emeritus
and the only one in Rainbow Warrior, died Sept. 6 at age 85. He Professor of Geography Peter Pirie
Naval Intelligence, fol- retired as chief investigator of the Santa Clara
revisits his homeland and shares
lowing recruitment to County District Attorney’s Office in California.
his expertise in New Zealand and
intelligence while in his senior year at UH. Lorraine “Lorrie” M.
Mortimer, wife of Australia population and demo-
former UH President graphic studies, including the effects
In Memory Kenneth Mortimer, of human interaction with tropical
John L. Canup (MA ’75 Mānoa), a history pro- passed away Feb. 4 ecosystems. For information, contact
fessor at Texas A&M University, passed away in Bellingham, Wash. Kevin Takamori, Alumni Relations,
in February. She played an active
role as UH’s first lady toll-free at 1-877-UH-ALUMS (1-877-
Bertell “Bert” D. Davis (PhD ’90 Mānoa),
and on the boards at 842-5867) or by email at kevin.
respected Hawaiian archaeological preserva-
tionist, died Jan. 16. He was best known for Honolulu Academy of Arts and the Hawai‘i takamori@uhf.hawaii.edu.
his 1970s work on the Barbers Point area. Food Bank.
Nainoa K. Hoe (BBA Ward F. Olsen (JD ’79 Mānoa) passed away
’00, MBA ’03 Mānoa),
U.S. Army Pacific
recently.
Salam Khalid Tamimi UHAA Activities
Reserve first lieuten- (BA ’76 Hilo) died June Online registration and details for all
ant, was killed Jan. 22 22, 2003, in Jordan.
while on foot patrol in Tamimi was a retiree of
UH Alumni Association-related events at
Mosul, Iraq. Married in the Ministry of Tourism www.UHalumni.hawaii.edu
June to Emily Hoe, the and Antiquities and a May 20–21 Colleges of Arts and Sciences
karaoke oldies fan was volunteer art teacher at
27 years old. Princess Haya’s Center Reunion (1945, 1955, 1965, 1975, 1985
in Amman. and 1995). Call 808 956-4051 or 808
956-5790 or visit www.artsci.hawaii.
edu/alumni.
In Peril from page 13
May 21 Las Vegas Chapter Golf
uniformly to every state, even though Water Supply laboratory staff to rapidly Tournament, with players from Mānoa’s
microbes behave differently in tropical detect changes in drinking water that College of Engineering chapter flying in
climates, he points out. could signal contamination by terrorists. for the event, Palm Valley Golf Course,
“We were able to convince the National Other water-preservation efforts by UH Sun City, Summerlin. Contact Ben Racelis
Science Foundation and National faculty include safe operation of water- at 702 796-9912 or write 3629 Laguna
Institute of Environmental Health catchment systems in areas not hooked Verde Way, Las Vegas, NV 89121.
Sciences to fund the Pacific Research up to a public utility. Ultimately, all June 17 UH Alumni Association event in
Center for Marine Biomedicine at Mānoa, appreciate the sentiment expressed by Hong Kong. Contact alumnews@hawaii.
one of four Ocean and Human Health American anthropologist Loren Corey edu or 1-808-956-2586 for information.
Centers across the country,” he adds. Its Eiseley: “If there is magic on this planet, Oct. 15 Homecoming football game
mission includes prevention of water- it is contained in water.” versus New Mexico State. Homecoming
borne diseases. Fujioka also developed Jennifer Crites (AA ’90 Windward, BA ’92 UHWO) is a week activities to be announced; watch
a monitoring plan and trains Board of freelance writer/photographer in Honolulu www.UHalumni.hawaii.edu

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For the Sogis, internships repay
an educational debt
War II intervened and his ROTC unit was called to active
duty. When soldiers of Japanese ancestry “were summar-
ily dismissed when we were classified as enemy aliens,” he
volunteered for the Military Intelligence Service to prove his
loyalty. He later completed a UH business degree, moved to
New York (where his high school sweetheart was an occu-
pational therapy scholar-
ship student at Columbia) …to “give back to
and earned a law degree
at Fordham University in
a society that has
1952. The Sogis married been good and
and he practiced corporate
and international law with generous to us.”
New York’s Kelley Drye
and Warren, spending three years as a foreign lawyer in
Japan. Upon his retirement as life partner after five decades,
the couple returned to Hawai‘i in 1996.

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he internships “give back to a society that
has been good and generous to us,” he says.
Since 1989, a Mānoa arts and sciences student

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spends the summer working at the Japanese
ānoa students gain career and life
National Art Museum in Los Angeles. Several
experience thanks to the generosity of
former interns now work in museums. The $225,000 Francis
UH Distinguished Alumnus Francis
Y. Sogi and Sarah M. Sogi Asian Pacific American Studies
and Sarah (BA ’45 Mānoa) Sogi, whose
Fellowship allows Mānoa ethnic studies majors to earn col-
foundation finances summer intern-
lege credit while training and studying in the Smithsonian
ships at museums on both coasts and a major law firm in
Institution’s Asian American Studies Program. The newest
New York City.
internship places a third-year UH law student in the sum-
“Education established the basis from which Sarah
mer associate program at the 400-attorney Kelley Drye firm.
and I were able to realize so much more than we had ever
In 2004, students ranked it best among more than 150 firms
dreamed,” Sogi says. They initially established the Sogi
nationwide, melding experience in a major international
Foundation to provide college scholarships to Big Island
practice with life in a large, mainland city.
graduates from Konawaena and Kealakehe High Schools.
“Students bring back a broader vision of the future,
“It is no more difficult for students from Kona to get into
and it will be good for the future of Hawai‘i,” Sogi says. “We
college than those from other parts of Hawai‘i,” but a rural
hope to continue with grants and scholarships for educa-
community can have greater need for financial support, he
tion and research aimed at a better understanding of Asian
explains.
Americans in our country, as well as for the betterment of
Born in 1923 to Japanese immigrants, Sogi grew up
students in Hawai‘i.”
on a Big Island farm and graduated from Konawaena High
School. Three months after he enrolled at Mānoa, World by Vicky Jocson, an External Affairs and University Relations intern

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